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Sandhill Mike

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  1. IMO, Fitz is just as bright as Brady or Rogers, he just doesn't have all the physical tools they have.  I'm no Fitz hater... he's been my favorite Bills QB since Y2K, remember when he beat the Patriots?  The guy played hard for us.  I wanted/expected him to do well, just without getting the Win.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    Peyton Manning’s teams also ran these pick plays beautifully for years.

     

    I feel Manning's success with it against New England (in his later Colts years) is the reason the Patriots do it and do it so well now.  If Emperor Hoodie sees something that will help his team, he adopts it.  He's never seen a competitive advantage that he didn't like.

     

    Frankish Reich, you've got the right idea.  If it's good enough for them, it's something you need to look at too.  Break it down, find out how they use it, get it in your game plan. 

     

    I think the Pats work with the refs (as allowed) not so much to learn how to play within the rules but to learn where the blind spots are.

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  3. 12 minutes ago, mattynh said:

    Other teams like the Bills should probably do more of them.

     

    I seem to remember the Bills trying it in at least one game a few years ago (I want to say Sammy was still here) and we got two OPI calls on the same drive... Shocker, I think it was a Pats game.

     

    Just for fun, here's a Brady quote from a 2015 article:

     

    “Every team runs different versions of pick plays,” said Brady. “We had referees in at training camp to talk about the rule and explain it because we got called quite a few times last season, especially on times where we weren’t even trying to pick it was just two guys running the same area and we ran into a defender and they threw the flag for a pick and I’d be like, ‘Wait a minute, we weren’t even trying to pick on that play and you’re throwing the flag.’ What constitutes the flag? It basically comes down to if it looks like a pick then they’re throwing the flag. … We get called, I watch other teams and they do it and I swear they don’t get called. We do it and the flag comes out.”

     

    https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/new-england-patriots/vp-officiating-singles-out-patriots-use-receiver-picks

  4. 2 hours ago, vorpma said:

    How do you respond to this nonsense by those who think it was an "easy road win for the Pats." Tell me BB was not sweating at the Bills drove late in the fourth; don't know what to say!

     

    Belichick allowed himself to smile after the last kneel down.  It sure looked like relief to me.  I'll bet Pats fans everywhere were freaking out, even with Barkley in there.  This was the first time in oh-so-long that the Patriots just could not put our team away. 

     

    The way they're playing me has me eager for THIS year's rematch, I don't care where they play it.  Bring it on.  Put some coal in Brady's stockings for Christmas.

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